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The Irish in the Atlantic World.

Gleeson, David T.

The Irish in the Atlantic World. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (350 pages) - Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World Series . - Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World Series .

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- The Irish Atlantic? -- Part I: Ireland in the Atlantic World -- Mathewite Temperance in Atlantic Perspective -- The Anatomy of Failure: Nineteenth-Century Irish Copper Mining in the Atlantic and Global Economy -- Transatlantic Migrations of Irish Music in the Early Recording Age -- The "Idea of America" in the New Irish State, 1922-1960 -- Part II: Irish Identity in the Atlantic World -- "The Transmigrated Soul of Some West Indian Planter": Absenteeism, Slavery, and the Irish National Tale -- Slavery, Irish Nationalism, and Irish American Identity in the South, 1840-1845 -- "From the Cabins of Connemara to the Kraals of Kaffirland": Irish Nationalists, the British Empire, and the "Boer Fight for Freedom" -- Kathleen O'Brennan and American Identity in the Transatlantic Irish Republican Movement -- "Blues Coming down Royal Avenue": Van Morrison's Belfast Blues -- Part III: The Irish in the Atlantic World -- The "Quadripartite Concern" of St. Croix: An Irish Catholic Experiment in the Danish West Indies -- The Irish and the Formation of British Communities in Early Massachusetts -- From Ulster to the Carolinas: John Torrans, John Greg, John Poaug, and Bounty Emigration, 1761-1768 -- "The Unacclimated Stranger Should Be Positively Prohibited from Joining the Party": Irish Immigrants, Black Laborers, and Yellow Fever on Charleston's Waterfront -- The Orange Atlantic -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

A new vision of the Irish diaspora within the Atlantic context from the eighteenth century to the present.

9781611172201


Irish Americans-History.
Irish Americans-Social life and customs.
Irish Americans-Ethnic identity.
Irish-America-History.
Irish-America-Social life and customs.
Irish-Migrations-History.
Ireland-Emigration and immigration-History.
America-Emigration and immigration-History.
Ireland-Relations-America.
America-Relations-Ireland.


Electronic books.

E184.I6 I6845 2010

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